Annihilation

By Piotr Szewc

Book Overview

Annihilation is about a day in the life of a Polish-Jewish town shortly before World War II and the Holocaust, a town that soon will be annihilated by Nazi atrocities. With grace, wit, and love for the people and place that will be destroyed, Piotr Szewc creates a hymn to the victims of the Holocaust, as well as a literary masterpiece whose brilliance is evidenced on every page.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564782050
• ISBN13: 9781564782052
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

a beautifully realized short novel

This is a beautifully realized account of a day in the life of a small town in eastern Poland in the early 1930s. Szewc has an eye like that of Proust. Details are lovingly recorded, all in an effort to preserve the day-to-day--a day-to-day that will be destroyed, one might add, during the Holocaust. The book is also beautifully translated.